Crowe's wife says loneliness no excuse for his New York phone hurling

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2005

SYDNEY (AFP) — Russell Crowe's wife says there is no excuse for the Oscar-winner's telephone-throwing temper tantrum that left a New York hotel clerk with facial cuts last week.

Crowe has blamed his frustration at missing wife Danielle Spencer and a malfunctioning telephone for the bust up and said afterwards: "There's not many things that scare me in this world, but I'm absolutely terrified of disappointing her."

Spencer, speaking in Sydney half a world away from Crowe, said she understood her husband's feelings but there was no excuse for the way the Gladiator star acted.

"I understand when you're apart the loneliness kicks in and obviously the phone becomes of paramount importance," she told the Sun-Herald newspaper.

"This is where it's difficult,...